1st & Ten With Lorenzo Alexander

It’s always good to go in-depth with Lorenzo Alexander, one of the leaders and leading spokesmen in the Bills locker room.

Alexander is in his 13th season and fourth with the Bills and remains a leader of critical important both on and off the football field. Through seven games, he had 33 tackles, two sacks, and one forced fumble. Bills Digest recently caught up with Alexander for his thoughts on the state of the Bills after hitting the midseason point, which included thoughts on the trade deadline and the alarming loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

1 The trade deadline recently passed and the team did not make any moves this year. Do the players in this locker room get a little boost from that, knowing they have confidence in this roster? Or does it not make much of a difference?

A: Honestly, guys don’t really even think about it. If our team makes a move, we make a move. If we don’t, we don’t. It’s not like that’s a topic of conversation in our locker room because we know that we have the talent in this room and obviously sometimes they make moves upstairs but we don’t really invest ourselves in that because that’s stuff that we can’t control.

2 Does the trade deadline at all feel a little bit different? It seems like with them moving it back a couple of weeks that it’s become more of a thing, though it’s clearly nothing like the trade deadline in other sports (like the NBA or NHL) ...